Fiasco

The US-led invasion of Iraq has had many critics since it began, but this explosive book shows the world something quite new: that the most eloquent critics of all are at the top of the American military itself.

With remarkable access to key figures throughout the armed forces - talking on and off the record - the author gives a gripping account of the entire Iraq fiasco: from its origins in the botched war of 1991 to the ever more disastrous occupation in 2006. Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. Providing eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories and figures, they give a chilling picture of the deceit, stupidity, wishful thinking, lack of forward planning and total intellectual failure of those behind the invasion. The result is an extraordinary new insight into the plight of ordinary soldiers doing nightmarish jobs, and the real nature of the fighting in Iraq.

With huge Iraqi casualties, thousands of Allied dead, tens of thousands seriously wounded, the occupation or Iraq is a disaster whose outcome and ultimate cost are still huge unknowns. Fiasco shows that the invasion has been the worst US foreign-policy decision ever taken, the consequences of which we will all have to live with for many years.

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